Mark Twain Quotes, Glasses Quotes, Ideas Quotes

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

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Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

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When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

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I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

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I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

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The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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